josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2020
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people laugh at me for using 
but at least i know what is happening 
We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak L: https://unixsheikh.com/articles/we-have-used-too-many-levels-of-abst...
I was just thinking that while in the bathroom earlier. No joke.
A major step in the life of a software engineer is the realization that software does not have to be perfect (and never is). Once you accept it, yo...
W. Richard Stevens' _TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1_ dedicates a grand total of four lines of text to the World Wide Web. He devoted more space to something called Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives).
That's one of the many reasons his books are true classics and works of genius.
That said, there is no mention of IRC in the whole thing, and NNTP only appears in a table without any significant detail added, which goes to show that geniuses make mistakes too.
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A reminder that browsers should never try to simplify or hide the URL from the user.
I understand now why grandparents and grandkids get along so well. There comes a moment in life when one starts to feel out of place talking to young people or other adults. I think that's because they take themselves too seriously. On the other hand, old people and children take everything seriously but themselves, and that's why they can be silly together.
Well, first problem detected: for some (obviously stupid) reason GRUB decided that having NumLock on is too wasteful and turns it off for the planet's sake.
It's easy to modify rc.local to set it on again, but I didn't have to when I used lilo. And what if I wanted it on from the very start?
Also, if GRUB turns it off, shouldn't there be an option in GRUB to revert that? If it exists, I can't find it.
The reason I use Slackware is because I understand why everything happens. I could look at lilo.conf and understand what it did and modify it according to my needs. I can understand GRUB configuration, too, but then these things happen out of nowhere and I feel cheated.
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More children have died in a single week due to Israeli bombing of Gaza than in almost eighteen months of war in Ukraine.
According to UNICEF spokesman James Elder, over 700 children have now died in Gaza.
According to the UN, 555 children have died in the Ukraine war.
Now remember back and think how western politicians and the media have spoken about both conflicts.
Sources:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/09/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-24-september-2023
I know I am fucking idiot. If sometimes I may seem smart, it's only by comparison.
So, today I went back to the relevant thread on LQ (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/grub2-in-slackware-discussion-and-instruction-4175727986/), because I thought I could finally understand what they were talking about, and was amazed at the amount of spaghetti people write to solve what it turned out to be a very simple task.
I guess the moral of the story is: read the documentation. It really pays off.
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Esta noche, en el Wurlitzer Ballroom, calle Tres Cruces, Madrid. Apertura de puertas a 21:00 horas
Today marks the end of an era for me. I said goodbye to my beloved lilo (which never, ever gave me the slightest problem in almost 25 years of use) and installed GRUB, which doesn't feel as comfy, to be honest.
@freemo Do you know if there's anything preventing qoto from interacting with PeerTube instance fediverse.tv? They said we're not blocked, but I can't follow any of their channels. They told me to ask you about it. I can follow people from other PeerTube instances just fine.
That's one amazingly idiotic and classist take. Personally, I would expect a doctors' forum to be run by someone who specialises in—wait for it—forums! But maybe I'm wrong, I don''t know. I'm not a journalist.
Just as you wouldn't expect a doctor's forum to be run by someone who never went to medical school, or a gardeners' club to be run by someone who h...
If your cookie popup is going to waste more than two seconds of my life trying to make me accept your terms, your web is hot trash and you MUST NOT expect me to come back to it. Today I'm looking at you todosobrejapon.es and lavanguardia.com.
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#RecomendacionesDeHumocefalo
Hace poco descubrí que con el carnet de la biblioteca (España) se puede acceder a una plataforma de streaming muy guay. Se basa en tickets gratuitos (3 a la semana) y hay un montón de títulos que también están, por ejemplo, en #Filmin
La web es https://efilm.online/ y si tienes cuenta en cualquier biblioteca de España puedes acceder con los mismos credenciales.
La plataforma, aparte del contenido, tiene un inicio atractivo con buenas listas de recomendaciones. Es una web muy atractiva y se agradece el cuidado en este tipo de servicio público.
And, yes, I am perfectly and _unironically_ aware that something like the flu can kill me, but the odds are so low that I see no point in worrying about it. I have plenty more serious stuff to worry about.
These weirdos remind me of those serial killers that one day get caught and when reporters go ask their neighbours what kind of person they were, they say: “He seemed pretty normal. Always greeted back.”
These people are the same: up until 2019 they seemed normal. I mean, they all voted blue no matter who and were not very smart or well informed, but most people are like that. It took some new version of the bird flu to turn them into fucking Borg.
I can't get over the fact that some people see other people have 5+ covid infections like it was nothing and still think of it as some kind of deadly virus that will turn this planet into a zombie apocalypse.
I usually read young people complain about how nobody told them about something until somehow they found out about it on their own.
Isn't that weird? I mean, that's how it's always been for my own generation, I think. If we were interested in something, we would just dive into it as deep as we could. Did we like movies, music or art? We didn't rely on schools or colleges to tell us what was out there. We searched for it on our own and shared our findings with whoever was willing to listen, because we were passionate about it.
That's why I think it's weird that younger people say things like: “They never told me about that in college!” Well, duh. If you rely on official institutions, you'll get the official version. If you want the truth, you have to put on your helmet and start digging. I thought that was what being young was all about.
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